Integrid LLC Blog

The workplace is a strange beast. You’re taking a group of people with wildly different personalities, throwing them together for 40+ hours a week, and asking them to act like a cohesive unit. It’s a mix of professional deadlines and how about those Mets? water-cooler talk.

Whether your office is a suite downtown or a series of icons on a taskbar, that blend of personal and professional is healthy. We’re social creatures, after all… but when those two worlds bleed into each other without any rules, things get messy—and I’m not just talking about hurt feelings. I’m talking about security risks that could cost you $15,000 (or much, much more).

How many times have you accidentally made changes to a file, only to wish that you didn’t? Maybe you accidentally overwrote an important document, or someone made unapproved edits to an important company document. In all of these cases, version control—being able to see the different iterations of a file—is critically important. Here’s why you need a solution in place that offers version control.

Data backup is one of those vital tools your business needs that it’s impossible to get away from. If you don’t have it, your company is at risk of losing countless years of progress, and if you don’t have contingencies in place, even its future could be in question. Here are three vital types of data that your business needs to protect with data backups.

Of course, you should have all data backed up; there are three important types just to prove our point.

Are you running a business without a mountain of cash? You’re not alone. Every dollar matters, and tech choices can be stressful. Do you grab the cheapest tool and hope for the best? Do you even feel like you have real options? Here’s the good news: You don’t need a huge budget, you need a smart game plan.

If you're a young entrepreneur or professional trying to grow your business without burning through cash, this one's for you.

It’s World Backup Day! It’s the one day where we bring awareness to the essential process of backing up your organizational and personal data. Let’s go through some of the variables that a comprehensive data backup and recovery plan features to commemorate the “holiday.”

Nobody likes getting big, unexpected bills from tech companies—neither the business owners who have to pay them nor the employees who might feel responsible for causing them. Small businesses face a tough choice: spend money to keep employees productive or save money and deal with slowdowns.

Communications are huge for a business, and in the course of doing business, no other communication tool is as valuable as the telephone. Today’s businesses have a real choice on how they want to purchase their telephone system, and the more your business relies on collaboration and innovative communications tools such as video conferencing, the more it becomes evident that VoIP is the best option. Today, we’ll explain how VoIP can bring substantial value to your business.